This Sailor Arts bundle includes:

• The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework by Hervey Garrett Smith, 1990 - Over 150 years ago, the skills needed to operate a merchant sailing vessel were many and varied. While not nearly as much in demand today as they were in the days of the Yankee clippers, these skills nevertheless remain important the necessary to today's yachtsmen and owners of smaller pleasure boats. In this excellent handbook on basic shipboard skills, marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging, working and maintaining a ship.
• String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands by Caroline Furness Jayne, 1962 - At some time in your youth, no doubt, you took a loop of string and made a cat's-cradle, a Jacob's ladder, or some other type of figure by looping and crossing the string between the fingers. This is an ancient form of amusement, which it is practiced in all parts of the globe, and is especially popular among primitive tribes. This book describes, in a simple and easy-to-follow manner, how to make no less than 107 different string figures, just as they are made in their land of origin.
• The Colonial Craftsman by Carl Bridenbaugh, 1990 - In colonial America, craftsmen comprised the largest segment of the population, after farmers. In this superb study, a distinguished American historian examines the lives and work of American craftsmen in the years before the Revolution - the golden age of colonial craftsmanship - showing them at work, at play, at worship, at school, at home, competing in their trades, striving to get ahead and playing a dynamic role as citizens in bringing about American independence.
• Inside the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation
• Silent Pilots: Figureheads in Mystic Seaport Museum by Georgia W. Hamilton
• Figureheads & Ship Carvings at Mystic Seaport by Edouard A. Stackpole
• Tools & Trades of America's Past: The Mercer Collection